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Some Podcasts from Vision Australia to Add to your Podcast Catcher (such as iTunes etc)   As promised last week, here are a few podcasts for you to download or stream from Vision Australia. I have also put in the link for  Talking Tech as well.  Most of the podcast names are self explanatory, but Hear This is the podcast from the Vision Australia Library, and Talking Vision is a podcast on news and interviews in relation to the blind or low vision community.     Computalk   http://feed.viostream.com/27499783-0240-4d1d-8251-b9644fc10822   Hear This   http://feed.viostream.com/ebc8121f-ca13-4b8e-9ba9-ea9fc0f79102   Talking Tech   http://feed.viostream.com/bcc3b547-e1bd-4c93-bdac-981cffb57d11   Talking Vision   http://feed.viostream.com/e997c807-f735-43be-b753-bfc9c8d76788 Luis Perez Presentation's at Vision Australia Sydney and Brisbane May 2014 More than 100 people who are blind or have low vision gathered in Sydney (Enfield) and Brisbane (Coorparoo) to hear from Luis Perez, an Amer...

Catching Up With Other Stories Not Covered In Talking Tech    My Twitter feed is where I favourite all of the stories that I may or may not cover during the Talking Tech program for the week.  You can use my Twitter feed favorites to see what all the stories I have been collecting.    https://twitter.com/favorites     Global Access Day   Global Access Day May Have Been Last Week, but here Are Ten Things You Can Still DO - From Media Access Australia.   http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/digital-technology/global-accessibility-awareness-day-10-things-everyone-can-do-to-improve-access-to-media   I just picked their top 5 and generalised a little bit. 1. Make links on webpages meaningful. 2. Transcribe your podcas. 3. Provide captioning for video content. 4. Provide audio description for video content. 5. Have a go at the inbuilt accessibility options found in most operating systems for desktop and mobile.    My Podcast Of The RIVO Keyboard from Mobience    I mentioned in the show ...

Revisiting the Hills Set Top Box Story from Last week/post   No problem, Hills still manufacturing, Vision Australia working on stock to get in.   My Experience with the RIVO (Remote Input to VoiceOver) custom Bluetooth Keyboard   Never thought I would want another Bluetooth style keyboard, but because the RIVO keyboard is so VoiceOver specific, it fits in well with the rest of my keyboards.   Find it particularly useful when I am on the treadmill and I can use single button press’s to perform multiple finger gestures.  Only exception to this so far is the command to start/stop music and to answer/hang up a call, but can’t have everything (smile).   http://www.mobience.com/rivo/index_en.html   Fleksy is Back with Their Main App being Accessible   People might remember that a few months ago the developers of the Fleksy app made a separate accessible app: Fleksy VO: the point being that the main Fleksy app was no longer accessible.  A couple of weeks ago, they made their main app accessi...

Hills Set Top Box    I am still trying to confirm whether the box is still available from Hills itself, but at this time of posting, Vision Australia is not showing them as a stock item on our online store.   Note - a check with Hills on Wednesday confirmed they are still selling the box, VA to decide how many to have in stock at a time.     GWMicro and AI Squared Merge - from the AFB Blog   This will be interesting to see where this leads.  Freedom Scientific this this quite a long time ago with the integration of 3 company’s.  AI Squared will be the main company.   http://www.afb.org/blog.aspx?BlogID=7&BlogEntryID=1237   Find My iPhone and other Like GPS Tracking Apps - from New York Times   This is a bit of a timely warning, if your phone is stolen and you know where it is via Find My iPhone, probably not a good idea to try and go and grab it yourself: depending on where it is.   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/us/when-hitting-find-my-iphone-takes-you-to-a-thiefs-doorstep.html...